Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
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Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
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The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
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The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.
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Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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The Devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God; in that way he would be playing the same part as an agent of economic discharge as the Jew does in the world of the Aryan ideal. But even so, one can hold God responsible for the existence of the Devil just as well as for the existence of the wickedness which the Devil embodies.
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In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
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The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.
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When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.
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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.
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If you can't do it, give up!
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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
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In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.
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It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
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Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.
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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
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Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers.
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.
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There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.
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The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.